Thursday are back with a new album which is scheduled for a May release. The release will be called A City By The Light Divided and singer Geoff Rickly has said it is “the album we tried to make with War All The Time”. Their fourth album’s tracklist is:
‘The Other Side Of The Crash/ Over And Out (Of Control)’
‘Counting 5-4-3-2-1’
‘Sugar In The Sacrament’
‘At This Velocity’
‘We Will Overcome’
‘Arc-Lamps, Signal Flares, A Shower Of White (The Light)’
‘Running From The Rain’
‘Telegraph Avenue Kiss’
‘The Lovesong Writer’
‘Into The Blinding Light’
‘Autumn Leaves Revisited’
The group will also play some dates in the UK at the end of May.
May 26th – Oxford Zodiac
May 28th – Manchester Academy 2
May 29th – Glasgow Garage
May 30th – Birmingham Academy 2
May 31st – Portsmouth Wedgewood Rooms
June 1st – London Electric Ballroom
Jewish Reggae artist Matisyahu, has announced 2 UK tour dates. His new album Youth is out at the start of May and if his past work is anything to go by, it’ll be a stunner. Make sure you go and check him out at:
The Test Icicles have announced they are going to be releasing a special CD/DVD EP called Dig Your Own Grave to mark the end of their career as a group together. The EP, which comes out on the 24th of April, will have 2 discs, and will include demos, unreleased tracks, remixes, live footage and videos. The track list is:
The Futureheads have announced a UK tour, to support their forthcoming album News And Tributes. The album is released on the 29th of May, the day they start their tour in Glasgow. The dates are:
Tom Delonge, the former guitarist of now defunct Blink 182, has started a new band with Atom Willard [from the Offspring], Ryan Sinn [formerly of The Distillers] and David Kennedy, his Box Car Racer bandmate. The group, called Angels And Airwaves have announced they will play the Electric Ballroom in Camden on the 27th of April.
Always ready to shock, Peaches is set to release a new album to continue her love of the eye-opening. The album, which is called Impeach My Bush and is due out on the 10th of July, features Joan Jett and Josh Homme.
I wonder how many kids wrote to that Jingle-Jangle cigar smoking fashion mistake pensioner, Jimmy Saville, when they had massive holes in their shoes and delams in their decks..? I doubt Jim’s day-glo shenanigans would have been any help.
Alan Glass (better known as ‘Street Lethal‘ for those of intimacy) has come a long way since his days of solitary confinement in an editing suite for blue movies.
Whilst Playing the angel is making it’s way up the charts, the Basildon synth-poppers headlined at the new Wembley Arena, which has recently seen a £35m facelift. This wasn’t the first time they played the famous venue, and by the sounds of things, definitely not the last!